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From 2009 to 2016, he stated, the overall increase in the base was zero percent.
After that, he stressed, follows a policy change and this Government through partnership with trade unions and work on better economic and financial circumstances of Croatia ensures a growth of the base of 40 percent.
All this would not have happened, he stressed, without responsible management of public finances, which, in addition, led to the raising of the credit rating by four degrees to all three world agencies to the level of investment and with a positive outlook.
This would not have happened if the Government had not won significant European funds, both through the Multiannual Financial Framework and through the Next Generation EU Instrument.
It would not have happened if nominal GDP from 2016, when it was 47 billion euros, did not reach 75 billion euros at the end of 2023, so that the GDP per capita, which was 11,500 euros in 2016, today was 20,000 euros.
The government, the prime minister stressed, could have achieved this thanks tothrough the circumstances it has created - a secure legal framework, a relieving tax policy and a predictable direction of the country, which is to firmly anchor the country into deeper integration through membership in the euro area, the Schengen area and the European Stability Mechanism, and the OECD.
"This is all possible because we were leading the country in the right direction," Plenkovic said.